Third-Party Report: Lieberman Software
    
		Lieberman Software, headed by super smart Phil Lieberman,  has long been in the Windows admin market. Now Phil is eying the cloud with  Enterprise Random Password Manager, which now brings its identity management  features to cloud providers. 
According to Lieberman (the company and the man), IT  interest in the cloud is growing, but so are fears that data will be stolen or  spied upon.
  
  We at Redmond  are working a cloud security story, so a recent e-mail exchange with Phil was  timed perfectly. Here's the gist of Phil's thoughts: 
  "The entire nature of   how insecure the cloud is and how cloud  vendors are not taking ownership or providing services for cloud security is a  big story that the cloud vendors don't want exposed. Any auditor that allows  critical information to reside on these cloud platforms without being able to  fully audit the access and security is simply not doing their job.  Or if  the auditor tells the client that cloud adoption is a mistake and the client  moves forward anyway, some companies have better management and direction than  others.
  Unfortunately, the auditors may find their client companies  jumping in to the pool (cloud cesspool), committing their companies 100 percent  between audit cycles, then having to give these companies the bad news that  their 'findings' show that they did something really risky and stupid just to  save a few bucks.
  Very few companies are doing their due diligence about cloud  security.  The cloud vendors are telling us they have no interest in  implementing security until customers demand it.  It is going to get ugly."
Are you a Lieberman customer? If so, send your thoughts to [email protected].  Third-party news also welcome at [email protected].
 
	Posted by Doug Barney on March 31, 2010